Joint Control Commission's meeting not opened third week in a row

Chisinau, 22 October /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova’s delegation to the Joint Control Commission (JCC) reiterated the proposal to bring for discussion the acute problems persisting in the Security Zone, at a meeting on 22 October.  

The Moldovan delegation said that the infringements committed by the power-wielding forces subordinated to Tiraspol – illegal ‘’border guards’’’ posts, restricting the free movement and even the sequestration of persons – represent an open defiance of the basic acts of the peacekeeping operation and the Commission is obliged, through its status, to take attitude and remove these unlawful acts.      

Tiraspol’s representatives in JCC, this time too, showed an aggressive, provocative and fully ungrounded position; they said that such events, even if they occur in the Security Zone, would not be within the competence of the Commission and refused to approve the agenda.    

After several hours of discussions, Russia’s delegation proposed the postponing of the meeting and holding additional consultations on subjects from the draft agenda.  

Thus, the meeting of the Joint Control Commission was not opened for the third week in a row, which cannot but influence the good work of the peacekeeping mechanisms established through the ceasefire Agreement from 21 July 1992 on the principles of peaceful settlement of the armed conflict from Moldova’s Transnistrian region.  

At the meeting, Moldova’s delegation submitted an addressing, thereby asking the other JCC members to facilitate on 1 November the movement of the electoral employees of polling stations with the mobile ballot boxes to two placement centres for elderly and disabled people, placed in the Cocieri village and, respectively, to the penitentiaries No 8 and No 12 of the National Administration of Penitentiaries, located in Bender. The delegation noted that, in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the anti-epidemiological measures established by the  authorities would be ensured at the carrying out of the voting procedure.     

A new working meeting of the JCC members was set for 29 October 2020.